Did You Know A Lot Of Elders That Simply Weren't Too Bright? (page 2)

blondie

It was the "bright" ones that understood the damage they were causing by espousing the WT concepts that bothered me more. More interested in protecting themselves than the "sheep."

Gary Buss. He wrote several "Armageddon Oakies" stories that were dead on accurate characters and stories of the people I grew up around. If you haven't read one of these you should! They used to be posted on Freeminds, but I haven't checked recently.

Chariklo

Oh yes. Yes indeed.

Glander

PS I didn't mean to imply that Gary Buss was one of those "not too bright" elders!

He captured the mentality very brilliantly in his satire.

breakfast of champions

Out of seven, there's only one I would consider really intelligent.

ShirleyW

Did You Know A Lot Of Elders That Simply Weren't Too Bright?

Thought that was one of the requirements.

I know this is going to sound like an Urban Myth story that makes the rounds but it did actually happen in my Cong. when a Bro. with the reading leavel of third grader reading Hittites, not sure of that's the correct spelling, but I guess you can figure out what he said - high titties - and kept saying it every time he had to read that name.

konceptual99

Hey @cantleave

Your intelligent bods... was one of them a chap who is a very good guitar player and played in a band for a long time? Still an elder and has pioneered. Ran a food related business as well I think. If so I know who he is.

jookbeard

our last body of elders had the biggest mish mash of brown nosers who made their way up to elders you could ever imagine, a one eyed Scotsman who was a former alcoholic who use to speak of his experiences of battling the booze, yet me and my mate used to catch him coming out of the liquor store, my mate (never a Dub) used to catch him frequently with bottles of Whiskey. A stuttering Iranian with a twitch was one of the very worst speakers you could ever imagine yet got used many times for speaking roles.A Nigerian who used to be up to doing dodgy business deals was also a dreadful public speaker yet he was made WT study conductor FFS.A Guyanese elder who used the most foul and abusive language one time in a silly little cricket game! Needless to say this bunch of useless imbeciles all shunned me at my fathers funeral in 2005. At one stage anyone could have become an elder in our cong, out of the 10 or so J. Morely was a computer whizzkid and clearly very bright and wealthy, Jeff Woodfield was a bright guy, decent as well, goodness alone knows what the MS's would have been like as elders if I had stayed, well one wouldn't have made it as he got removed because of his online porn addiction, another elder got fruity with a Japanese sister and removed , he was bright.

Glander

We had a brother in his fifties who's TM assignment was to read the Song of Solomon. In every place the word "Breast(s)" appeared he pronounced it "Beast(s)"

He was appointed elder.

JW GoneBad

The question can also read in the present tense….’Do You Know A Lot Of Elders Who Aren’t Too Bright?’

Answer: Oh Ya! A lot of Larry, Moe and Curly types. If you know what I mean !

Did You Know A Lot Of Elders That Simply Weren't Too Bright?

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